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Only by Blood is a novel of search for roots, mother-daughter love and family reconciliation. A Polish woman receives puzzling news from her mother just before she dies. She wants to fulfill her mother's last wishes, but has little idea of where to start. Never does she...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2015-06-15
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Manfred Weiszl who lies dying of cancer in an upper room of a grand old Toronto house. The action of the novel is precipitated whenManfred wishes to see Rupert his son before he dies and Rupert refuses to cooperate. However, Moments of Joy, is a novel of character...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2015-06-15
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Mohammed is an aggressive, dominant character who bullies his wife and four children and wages paranoiac diatribes against his sister and her family. It is only whenMohammed leaves for work every morning that the house relaxes into the rich interconnectivity of familial...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2015-06-15
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Johanna Bergen is a park warden in a Rocky Mountain National Park whose time is spent on such tasks as bear patrol, locating tourists who are lost or in other physical danger and policing park rules. She has a particular affinity for grizzly bears largely stemming from...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2015-06-15
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Through the braided narratives of three spirited characters, this novel bears witness to the infamous “American” crime that metastasized uber-civilized Montreal. Everyone wants a Marin at her party. Bohemian and beautiful, this engineering student is as passionate about...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2015-06-15
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The year is 1885 and Abigail Peacock is resisting what seems to be an inevitable future—a sensible career as a teacher and marriage to the earnestly attentive local storeowner.But then she buys a rifle, and everything changes. This Godforsaken Place is the absorbing...
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Brindle & Glass
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2015-06-01
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When the poet Eleanor Brandon dies, an apparent suicide, Peter Forrest, her former student, sometime lover and now a married professor, is asked to be her literary executor. He agrees, although he makes it clear that he is only interested in bringing her poetry to...
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Signature Editions
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2015-04-15
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ReLit Long Shortlist, 2015
Winner, Type Books Award
In this daring act of self-examination and confession, the late novelist Nelly Arcan explores the tortured end of a love affair. All the wrong signals were there from the start, but still, she could not help falling....
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Anvil Press
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2015-03-20
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Over Our Heads is a novel that weaves together the histories of two very different half-sisters who return home to deal with the aftermath that occurs when the grandmother who raised them dies. Emma, a punk band singer and poet turned pet psychic, and Rachel, an actuary...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2014-10-15
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After ten years of marriage, Sue and Jerry would say they know everything about each other. But each harbours a significant secret. When Jerry becomes ill and it’s apparent he’s dying, Sue visits a psychic, Hans, who tells her there is someone like a son in her life....
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2014-10-15
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After losing her job and being left by her rock musician husband, Rose Okanese, a single mother of two feisty girls, resolves to claim some self-respect. She decides the fastest way to do that is to run the reserve’s annual marathon, but her training is sidetracked when...
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Thistledown Press
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2014-10-01
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Evie Troy, an impulsive and funny young Jewish woman, has a tendency to overcomplicate things. And that can get her into trouble. When her dying friend Jean-Gabriel, a successful and controversial francophone writer, cons her into carrying out his last wish, delivering...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2014-08-15
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Stony Point tells the story of a woman who succeeds in doing things at a time when custom restricts her from doing anything. In 1903, shortly after the Frank slide, a newspaper reporter vanishes from a mining town in the Crowsnest Pass. Lucille travels toStony Point in...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2014-08-15
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"Toil and Peaceful Life" is the axiom that lies at the heart of Doukobor spiritual, personal, and community values. These values have always been, and continue to be, integral to the people who belong to this historically rich and vibrant community. During particular...
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Thistledown Press
Parution :
2014-03-31
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Pertice McIlveen, a young Ontario woman who loves Hemingway and hates hats, receives a mysterious key in the mail. Accompanied by her best friend Es, she travels to Gannet Island off the coast of New Brunswick to find the door it fits into. There she discovers a...
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Signature Editions
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2013-11-05
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St. John’s archivist Michael Lowe’s life is turned on its head when a Dutch colleague, Anton Aalders, arrives on his doorstep in 1995. Anton is searching for a father he never met, ostensibly a Newfoundland soldier part of the Allied force that liberated the Netherlands...
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Vagrant Press
Parution :
2013-09-15
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Finalist, Giller Prize
Winner of 2 Saskatchewan Book Awards (Best First Book; City of Saskatoon Book Award)
Finalist, Saskatchewan Book Award (Book of the Year)
Winner, Canadian Authors’ Association-BookTV Emerging Writer Award
Finalist, Amazon/ Books in Canada First...
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Anvil Press
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2013-07-15
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In prose that’s as sharp as broken glass and shot through with poetry, Teresa McWhirter unlocks the extraordinary subculture of urban adults in their twenties and early thirties. Most startling of all are the portraits of young women—tough, independent party girls who...
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Anvil Press
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2013-06-01
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Families who would want to honour a parent’s request to not die in hospital, encounter obstacles that can defeat even accomplished health professionals. Autumns’ Grace is a story that spans a ten-month period as the Campbell family comes to terms with the father’s...
Editeur :
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2013-05-15
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Families who would want to honour a parent’s request to not die in hospital, encounter obstacles that can defeat even accomplished health professionals. Autumns’ Grace is a story that spans a ten-month period as the Campbell family comes to terms with the father’s...
Editeur :
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2013-05-15
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